In ancient Greek mythology ... and back legs of a lion combined with the head, wings, and talons of an eagle. Griffin protomes, such as the fine examples in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are ...

Its horns bend inward like the sliver of a day ... discourses on the bull’s prominence in the ancient Near East. Until the invention of the steam engine, the bull was the most powerful force ...

a tail that ended in the head of a serpent. Greeks were fond of expressing narrative in their vase painting and they appropriated Near Eastern creatures like the Chimaera and the siren and altered ...

With the help of workshops and adventure sheets, children can sift through the past of ancient Near East, sorting the ordinary from the extraordinary in the lives of the people of Egypt and ...

A clay head that dates back ... symbols or attributes — such as horns, crescents, bulls — found on figures and visual representations throughout the ancient Near East, that would identify ...

With their comically long necks, horn ... pointed head ornament, and prolibytherium had large, flat, wing-like growths, like shields on its head. Scientists have discovered the ancient remains ...